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SUBJECT: DALLAS HAS SOME STRANGE VISITORS FILE: UFO3251
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Visitors to Dallas sometimes prove to be out of this world
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from THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 10/25/93
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Dallas is a town that definitely draws visitors. They come from
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all over.
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Check the signatures on the register at The Sixth Floor exhibit over
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at the old Texas School Book Depository and you'll see just where
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they come from - every continent, country, city and ZIP code.
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And if you were a visitor or a resident returning home, you could
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always see signs that you were approaching Dallas. For decades,
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travelers could spy the Flying Red Horse atop the Magnolia Oil Co.
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Building. You may see it even now if you approach Dallas from the
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right direction on a clear night.
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These days, though, you are more likely to home in on the big green
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building as a clear sign that you're approaching Dallas.
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Unless, of course, you're approaching from outside our atmosphere.
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I'm not sure what the homing beacon looks like from outer space. But
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somebody knows. Some being knows.
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This allegedly happened weeks ago, when the summer nights were still
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hot and the only way you could get a cool, deep breath was to stick your
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head into an icebox and draw mightily on the refrigerated air.
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It was a day like any other day. We got a call here on the city desk from
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a guy who claimed he had a story to tell.
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I'm getting this second-hand, by the way. You'll see why in a minute.
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The man claimed he'd been changing a tire on Good-Latimer Expressway,
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just east of downtown.
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He was alone, he said, except for his dog, Chigger, who, for now, will
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have to be regarded as the only living witness.
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As the man worked to loosen the lug bolts, he was, he claimed, abducted
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by space aliens.
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Abducted by space aliens in Dallas. Could it happen?
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Most of my childhood was spent in the 1950s. We knew flying saucers
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back then. They were spotted all the time - common as dust bunnies under
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your bed.
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UFOs were so scary that they inspired Hollywood to make such films as
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Not of This Earth, The Brain from Planet Arous, Invasion of the Saucermen,
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etc. Even today the sightings that were reported in the late '40s and
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throughout the '50s are kicked around in UFO circles. People still write
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books about them. There's the famous sighting of a fleet of flying saucers
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over Mount Rainier, Wash., in 1947 and, coincidentally that same year, the
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story of a spaceship that blew up or crash-landed or something at Roswell,
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N.M. Why, way back in 1897, there was the incident at Aurora in Wise
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County. The story goes that a spaceship hit a windmill and the townsfolk
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buried the occupants in the local cemetery. Hoax. Hoax. Hoax. Hoax?
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What we're talking about today is the recent alleged incident on our own
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Good-Latimer Expressway, hardly regarded as your major interstellar
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throughway.
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This fellow claimed, as I said, that he was, as good dog Chigger watched,
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abducted by space aliens while he was changing a tire. One of our reporters,
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trained to be skeptical, spoke ever so briefly to this caller, listened
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politely to his story and asked if the fellow had been hospitalized recently.
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"No!" replied our caller. "Have you?" (Let's not get into the mental state
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of people who write for newspapers - there's not enough room here to
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explain things.)
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The caller reacted by cutting off the conversation with a dramatic hang-up.
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Unfortunately, this left us with a bagful of questions, like, "Are you calling
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from orbit?"
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Keep in mind that, as I list these questions, I don't doubt for a second that a
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person could have been picked up by space aliens in Dallas. I've seen people
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in Deep Ellum who looked as if their familial roots were planted not only on
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another planet but, perhaps, in another dimension, too.
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Our questions we'd have asked Chigger's master:
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(1) Did the aliens help with the tire?
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(2) Was Chigger ill at ease or was he the one barking out orders?
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(3) Did other motorists drive by without stopping because they
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saw you were already being helped?
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(4) At which point did you realize these were space aliens and not just
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ordinary ornately tattooed grunge-wearing, techno-speaking
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homegrown cyberpunks?
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(5) Have you now or have you ever been a member of the CIA, FBI
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or the Texas Legislature?
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(6) Do you believe in voodoo, magic, leprechauns or the
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Superconducting Super Collider?
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(7) Have you ever followed a flashing light over a darkened countryside?
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Has a flashing light ever followed you over a darkened countryside?
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Were you arrested?
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(8) Is there any way you could have been channeling someone else at the
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time of this encounter?
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(9) Did the space aliens complain about all the torn up roads in Downtown
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Dallas?
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(10) Is it possible that they are inter-dimensional beings, freed when
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DART dug its subway tunnel? When you last saw them, were they walking
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away or were they beaming onto a big yellow, rectangular starship with
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lots of windows and a pilot who demanded exact change?
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